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Friday, July 18, 2008 7:11 PM

SCREENCAST: Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth

In this screencast, I build off of the concepts shown in my previous screencast and show you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server
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Friday, July 18, 2008 6:16 PM

SCREENCAST: Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008

In this screencast, I show you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Saving-Virtual-Earth-Polygons-to-SQL-Server-2008/
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:27 AM

WEBCAST RECORDING: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX

First, let me apologize since I promised to make this recording available almost two months ago.  I was trying to get the recording uploaded to the same Live Meeting servers as my other webcasts.  Needless to say, I had some challenges. 
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Monday, July 14, 2008 4:21 PM

Behind the Maps - The Technology of Virtual Earth

I talk to people about programming with Virtual Earth quite often.  Beyond the developer APIs, my Virtual Earth knowledge somewhat limited.  I get asked all sorts of interesting questions about the technology behind Virtual Earth.  My answer
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:46 AM

Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight (VIEWS)

At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control.  The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many.  I
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Friday, June 27, 2008 4:25 PM

SCREENCAST: Using Virtual Earth in a WPF Application

As promised, here is the screencast for my previous post: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Using-Virtual-Earth-in-a-WPF-Application/ - Marc
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:01 PM

WPF and Virtual Earth revisited

I've been pretty quite on the blogging front lately.  Every once in a while, I get the opportunity to work on something a little meatier than writing demo code.  Almost all of my time over the last month or so has been spent working on a couple
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Friday, May 02, 2008 10:58 AM

UPDATED WORKAROUND: Intellisense for page level map variables using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper

UPDATE: AH FOOEY!  I feel like a goof:).  Turns out my workaround DOESN'T WORK!!!  If you look at the logic from the original post, it makes sense that it wouldn't work because “var map = new VEMap();” is before “var map
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:28 PM

Updated Virtual Earth Map Control demo code

UPDATE: I've updated the code to use the workaround described here .  If you downloaded this code before May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:30 PM EST, then you might download it again.  The URL is the same. I’ve update my primary Virtual Earth (VE) map
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:13 AM

NEW RELEASE: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper

I am happy to announce that we have a new release of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper to bring Intellisense in sync with the new Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1 .  In addition to 6.1 compatibility, we also made the following enhancements:
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Monday, April 14, 2008 4:30 PM

VE JavaScript Intellisense Helper bug & workaround

A bug has been discovered when using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper where JavaScript Intellisense fails to surface in a very common scenario.  The scenario is when you have declared a page level map variable.  You will get
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:32 PM

Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1

The control has been releases / is publicly available.  Chris Pendleton has the details in his post titled New Virtual Earth API Release - Virtual Earth 6.1 .  The Virtual Earth Interactive SDK & full Virtual Earth SDK have not been update,
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:54 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Thanks to Scott Caulk from IDV Solutions for being a guest presenter.  You can find Scott's deck here .  Scott also asked I post the following links for those of you who want further information: IDV Solutions
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Friday, April 04, 2008 1:52 PM

WEBCAST: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is rapidly approaching the 100 million licenses sold milestone and SharePoint consulting services are white hot.  IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion software extends SharePoint to create a visual composite
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:08 PM

Improving the performance of drawing large vector datasets on the Virtual Earth map.

One of the topics that comes up often when I give Virtual Earth programming talks is that there is a point where performance degrades when adding shapes (pushpins, polylines, polygons) to the map.  When depends on the complexity of the shapes you
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